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PlaylistsChina and AI“China’s Current Capabilities, Policies, and Industrial Ecosystem in AI” Jeffrey Ding“China’s Current Capabilities, Policies, and Industrial Ecosystem in AI” Jeffrey Ding
Jeffrey Ding (uscc.gov)
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China and AI
How do US-China relations affect the future of AI?
“China’s Current Capabilities, Policies, and Industrial Ecosystem in AI” by Jeffrey Ding.
June 7, 2019
Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Hearing on Technology, Trade, and Military-Civil Fusion: China’s Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence, New Materials, and New Energy
D.Phil Researcher, Center for the Governance of AI Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford
Introduction
This testimony assesses the current capabilities of China and the U.S. in AI, highlights key elements of China’s AI policies, describes China’s industrial ecosystem in AI, and concludes with a few policy recommendations.
China’s AI Capabilities
China has been hyped as an AI superpower poised to overtake the U.S. in the strategic technology domain of AI. Much of the research supporting this claim suffers from the “AI abstraction problem”: the concept of AI, which encompasses anything from fuzzy mathematics to drone swarms, becomes so slippery that it is no longer analytically coherent or useful. [...]
